To help make your book club gathering special, here is an eraappropriate recipe see below to serve while you chat about the book. The tumbling turner sisters questions for discussion early in the novel, gert muses about what shes willing to do to have a bigger, better life. I had the great luck to read both throughout development in our great writing group. The tumbling turner sisters by juliette fay is a 2016 gallery books publication. The book of lost names book by kristin harmel official. This book is during the heyday of vaudeville, with a family that has to find a way to make a living during hard times. There is a seamier side to the business, however, and the young women face dangers and turns of fate they never could have anticipated.
The story tried so hard to include all of them, constantly, that it brushed over a lot of what i would have wanted to know about them. The tumbling turner sisters by juliette fay overdrive rakuten. The tumbling turner sisters by juliette fay book club. Heartwarming and surprising, the tumbling turner sisters is a story of awakeningto unexpected possibilities, to love and heartbreak, and to the dawn of a new american era. Andrews sisters surf side sisters sisters of the sword book. Read the tumbling turner sisters a book club recommendation. This reading group guide for the tumbling turner sisters includes an introduction, discussion questions, and ideas for enhancing your book club.
Their father is a lowpaid boot stitcher in johnson city, new york, and the family is always one paycheck away from eviction. This traditional lamb spiedie would assure the turner family they had arrived. Polgar sisters summer with my sisters chiappa sisters the wartime sisters sisters of batt. The tumbling turner sisters by juliette fay overdrive. Id have happily read a much longer book if it meant more insight into their personalities, hopes, and fears. The tumbling turner sisters audiobook, written by juliette. Jun 14, 2016 i suppose by contrast, the tumbling turner sisters is more exciting than little women though i will always love that book, and the narration helps with that.
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Their father is a lowpaid bootstitcher in johnson city, new york, and the family is always one paycheck away from eviction. The tumbling turner sisters by juliette fay goodreads. As a whole, the tumbling turner sisters is a solid story. Each chapter goes back and forth between narration by gert and winnie, clearly the strongest characters in the novel and women in the family, offering differing perspectives on their. Which of the vaudeville acts described in the tumbling turner sisters would you most like to see live. Author juliette fay presents the tumbling turner sisters. So happy about the release of the city of flickering light by juliette fay, author, a sortofbutindependent followup to the tumbling turner sisters. How are nell, winnie and gert each affected by his loss. Find books like the tumbling turner sisters from the worlds largest community of readers.
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Goodreads members who liked the tumbling turner sisters also l. Buy a cheap copy of the tumbling turner sisters book by juliette fay. Her work has been featured in people, womans day, mens health, and ladies home journal, among many other media outlets. I loved it so much that i bought another copy for my kindle so i could share it with my mom. Kris ten dace y lwai this month, we recommend that you make juliette fays the tumbling turner sisters your next book club pick. If you are the publisher or author of this book and. Through this band of charming young womenand their stage mother, of coursejuliette fay delivers the history, mystery, and prejudice of vaudeville in a story that is ultimately about the possibility of practice making something perfect or perfect enough, anyway, the benefits. When their bootstitcher father loses his job after a debilitating injury, the turner sisters and their mother support themselves by performing on the vaudeville stage, where they confront dangers and turns of fate from the seamier side of the business. Winnie, whose ambition is to go to college and become a doctor, also falls hard for joe. The tumbling turner sisters by juliette fay for fans of orphan train and water for elephants, a compelling historical novel from one of the best authors of. Going on tour certainly gives her a broader view of the world, but by the end of the novel, would you say her life is better. Vaudeville blossomed from coast to coast from the 1880s to the 1920s, and as juliette fay states in the introduction and the turners learn as they go.
The prose is riveting as the sisters carry their family out of poverty in a time of racially charged political turmoil. In this novel of love, grit, and the everlasting strength of family, the turner sisters dare to dream big. Heartwarming and surprising, the tumbling turner sisters is ultimately a story of awakening to unexpected possibilities, to love and heartbreak, and to the dawn of a new american era. A story about four sisters growing up, working together, encouraging each other and trying to find their way in life, the tumbling turner sisters is like a vaudevillian version of little women a correlation made just a little too obvious with the authors mention of the american classic within her own novel, as winnie attempts. Jan 03, 2017 now in trade paperback, the tumbling turner sisters by juliette fay is a careening, heartwarming historical novel filled with energetic prose and colorful characters christina baker kline set amidst the tumultuous and thrilling backdrop of 1920s american vaudeville, featuring the four turner sisters and the last chance act that will save their family or seal their fates forever. The tumbling turner sisters questions for discussion. Their father is a lowpaid boot stitcher in johnson city, new york, and the. For fans of orphan train and water for elephants, a co. Our digital editions click here for a video of juliette fay talking about the tumbling turner sisters. The turner family the frustrated, dissatisfied mother, almost silent father and four diverse daughters are poor, as in one rent check away from being thrown out on the street.
The suggested questions are intended to help your reading group find new and interesting angles and topics for your discussion. Her first book was a fictionalized memoir about her time as a nurse during the american civil war 18611865opens a new window. Fays gorgeous prose lends itself to this touching story of the four turner girls, their mother ethel and father frank, and the extended family they acquire as they take the stage during the vaudeville era. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. In fays latest novel, four sisters take to the road in pursuit of vaudeville fame and fortune, but soon find the journey bringing them closer to each other and their own personal desires than. Juliette fay the tumbling turner sisters read and download. The tumbling turner sisters is about a povertystricken family of four girls who try their hand as an acrobatic act in vaudeville in 1919. Heartwarming and surprising, the tumbling turner sisters is ultimately a story of awakeningto unexpected possibilities, to love and heartbreak, and to.
The tumbling turner sisters book by juliette fay official. Its 1919 in a small town in western new york state. Juliette fays charming fourth novel is inspired in part by her own familys history in vaudeville, and she dives into the eras rich history with unbridled enthusiasm. A site dedicated to book lovers providing a forum to discover and share commentary about the books and authors they enjoy.
In 1919, the four turner sisters and their parents are barely scraping along. When their fathers hand is crushed and hes forced to quit, their domineering mother decides that the vaudeville stage is their bestand. The tumbling turner sisters by juliette fay, paperback. For fans of orphan train and water for elephants, a compelling historical novel from one of the best authors of womens.
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